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The
Dutch
Circle
Party
by
Femke
Goedhart,
Business
Consultant,
Silverside
I
love
how
cultures
have
their
own
unique
peculiarities
and
coming
from
the
Netherlands
I
dare
say
that
our
Dutch
culture
has
its
fair
share.
One
of
which,
apart
from
our
“Dutch
directness”,
our
love
for
bikes,
and
our
constant
struggle
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A
sparkling
start
to
2013!
By
Femke
Goedhart,
Business
Consultant,
Silverside
With
the
holidays
looming
and
everyone
looking
back
at
2012,
as
well
as
looking
forward
to
2013
-
it’s
no
wonder
some
of
us
are
already
thinking
of
IBM
Connect
2013.
It's
only
a
few
weeks
from
now.
A
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Get
Your
Pens
Out;
Looking
for
IBM
Redbooks
Bloggers!
By
Femke
Goedhart,
Business
Consultant,
Silverside
Early
2009
I
received
a
mail
from
my
boss
asking
me
how
I
would
feel
about
applying
for
an
IBM
Redbooks
team
on
one
of
my
favorite
topics:
document
management.
I
would
have
to
decide
that
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The
Art
of
Feedback
by
Femke
Goedhart,
Business
Consultant,
Silverside
I
got
some
really
valuable
feedback
lately
about
some
of
the
blogging
I've
been
doing,
and
it
has
showed
me
once
more
how
important
it
is
to
ask
for,
and
get
feedback
when
blogging.
Blogging
can
be
quite
a
lonely
process
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Social
versus
Document
Management:
Flipping
the
Coin
or
Taking
the
Best
of
Both?
By
Femke
Goedhart,
Business
Consultant,
Silverside
With
‘social’
and
social
file
and
content
sharing
being
the
buzzwords
nowadays
I
sometimes
get
asked
why
I’m
still
this
heavily
invested
in
working
with
customers
on
document
management
solutions,
and
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If
you’re
like
me,
it
might
seem
like
everyone
you
know
is
going
to
IBM Connect.
From
the
blogs
to
the
conversations
on
Twitter
– it
can
easily
give
you
the
feeling
you
are
the
only
one
not
going.
So,
as
someone
who
won’t
be
attending
this
year,
I
figured
it
was
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Food
for
Thought:
Social
Trust
Femke
Goedhart,
Business
Consultant,
Silverside
Social
media
use
is
everywhere.
With
more
than
800
million
users
on
Facebook,
more
than
225
million
Twitter
accounts
(source),
Google+
rapidly
gaining
on
the
competition,
and
countless
other
platforms
popping
up
left
and
right,
it’s
hard
to
ignore.
But
how
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Social
Connections:
The
Social
Business
User
Group
invites
you
to
Zurich
By
Femke
Goedhart,
Business
Consultant,
Silverside
In
a
world
where
social
business
is
often
still
seen
as
a
‘buzz
word’
and
many
companies
are
still
determining
their
viewpoint,
having
the
opportunity
to
speak
with
experts,
exchange
ideas
and
hear
real-life
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KLM:
Surfing
the
social
media
tidal
wave
Now
a
major
international
company
taking
their
online
reputation
and
social
customer
service seriously
during
a
major
services
outage
isn’t
new,
but
to
specifically
offer
operational
help
(like
booking
or
check
in)
through
a
Facebook
or
Twitter
account
is
not
something
you
see
often.
The
... [ + Read more ]

Food
for
thought…
The
telephone
game
Femke
Goedhart,
Business
Consultant,
Silverside
@FemkeGoedhart
As
kids,
most
of
us
will
have
at
one
time
played
the
“telephone”
game.
The
game
where
you
sit
in
a
circle
and
one
person
whispers
a
message
into
the
ear
of
the
person
sitting
next
to
him
who
then
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